Twigman

[quote name='AM1' post='463379' date='Apr 15 2009, 08:46 PM']Yeah - as the question goes, is the music scene at an all time low?? Online downloading just seems to have killed off bands making money and even touring bands are not exactly rolling in it.[/quote] I disagree.....after years in the doldrums, the internet has opened us up to whole new audiences and we are touring again after many years off. If it wasn't for the internet we'd be sucking on our pipes and donning our comfy slippers rather than jetting off round europe to 'entertain' a whole new generation of manic depressive teenagers!!!

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On my recent trip to Italy: I used a Mark Bass Head with an Ampeg 4x10 cab in Rome - I didn't get on with this. and a lovely Ampeg head with a SWR 4 x 10 cab in Vicenza - I liked this a lot. In Athens I am told I will have a Trace Elliot 1215V 1x15 combo. Tell me about them.

So that's 3 different punters so far......

We're all over Youtube!!!!! HURRAH!

[quote name='Twigman' post='455536' date='Apr 6 2009, 03:09 PM'] We leave tomorrow. Getting excited already and we're not on stage 'til Friday!![/quote] Leg 1 complete Rome was so so - all rather disorganised and we were severely stressed but Vicenza was FANTASTIC

[quote name='Skybone' post='455504' date='Apr 6 2009, 02:40 PM']maybe you could pay for someone to stand somewhere off stage and be your "Pick Monkey". [/quote] This sounds like a goer.

We leave tomorrow. Getting excited already and we're not on stage 'til Friday!!

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[quote name='KevB' post='455171' date='Apr 6 2009, 09:47 AM']On a jazz or a precision it is usually in the top of the scratchplate.[/quote] Aye that is how my precision plate got badly warped..I'm looking for another solution. I reckon a few blu-tacked somehwere might mean there's one not fallen off by the time I need one.

[quote name='bremen' post='455162' date='Apr 6 2009, 09:41 AM']Blu-tak[/quote] I never thought of that.....hmmm

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='455158' date='Apr 6 2009, 09:35 AM']That's quite amazing, you have a keyboard AND a bass player?[/quote] You taking the mick?

I have decided that the final song in our set would be better played with a plectrum but all the other songs will be fingers. In the past I would stuff a plectrum between the body and the scratchplate but my scratchplate severely warped doing that. As the final song runs on from the previous fingered song in a medley style I have a mere 4 bars (@ something like 140bpm) to grab my plectrum and sort myself out.... I don't think a back pocket would work and I probably won't be able to see if it's atop my amp... Where do you keep yours?

I think when I come to sell my bass I'll have to double/treble/quadruple the price and add the 'owned by *Twigman* from SL&G"...after all we've got loads more listeners on last.fm than him which must make me more famous than him. [url="http://www.last.fm/music/Stuart+Zender"]http://www.last.fm/music/Stuart+Zender[/url] 1,234 plays (74 listeners) [url="http://www.last.fm/music/Sad+Lovers+and+Giants"]http://www.last.fm/music/Sad+Lovers+and+Giants[/url] 158,493 plays (17,040 listeners) Anyone want to buy a Squire JV P (Fiesta Red) for say £2000 ? mind [url="http://www.last.fm/music/Jamiroquai"]http://www.last.fm/music/Jamiroquai[/url] 17,665,177 plays (771,738 listeners) might need to be factored in....I suppose

I've never had a bass lesson in my life but sometimes employ a technique which involves damping strings with the outside of my plucking hand.

I hope they don't make the same mistake that TWO/Magicalia did with Visordown. They introduced their own forum software and demanded an opt out of promos and made whole areas of the site subscription only....... That was horrible. Everyone deserted and set up their own place. Edit: hook line sinker - but i've seen it happen too often for real

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[quote name='basswesty' post='450267' date='Mar 31 2009, 08:47 AM']I don't get the 'P has One sound' though. Ok, its never going to have the variation of certain other basses with loads of EQ but you can get a fair amount of tone from a P by a twist of the tone pot and moving your right hand to play near the bridge/neck. Sit back and wait for the backlash!!! [/quote] What backlash? I agree 100%

Battery? What you need is a passive bass - no batteries required - no memory required.

Practicing for these - after many years off:

1987 at Club Isla, Pacha, Valencia - the only live photo I could find. After we get back from tour I'll post what we look like 22 years later!